Showtoons

This flashy drama about theater life was made with my students at the San Francisco Art Institute and follows the various personalities that make up the show-biz milieu of a fictitious city on a fog bound coast. The fog is thick and so is the plot as it plunges into a series of dramatic interludes which include musical numbers, war scenes, ballets, and erotic shenanigans involving the living and the animated dead. The young and the not-so-young parade through this homage to stagecraft with all the gusto that their libidos could harness and the $1000 budget filled in the blanks when they pooped out. It’s a non-stop barrage of sights and sounds too dense to capsulize here.